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Environment
Communities
PROJECT NUMBER • 2014-226
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Indigenous Fishing Subprogram: Improving the recognition and integration of traditional owner customary fishing and ecological knowledge in the management of Victoria’s fisheries

With growing recognition of Traditional Owner groups across Victoria as native title claims are being resolved. There is a strong interest from within Victorian Traditional Owner community to actively participate in the management of Victoria’s fisheries. However, despite these strongly held...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Rac Vic
Industry
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-165
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Movement and re-aggregation of blacklip abalone in response to intensive fishing

Typically abalone are found clustered into aggregations of many individuals along gutters and ledges that dissect the surfaces of the reefs they inhabit. Commercial abalone divers take advantage of this clustering behaviour and specifically target aggregations to minimise the time spent searching...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Tagging
Stock Assessment
Reproduction
Population Dynamics
Mortality
Environment
Environment
Environment
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-103
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Shark 'drop out rate' from hauling gill-nets in the southern shark fishery

Shark 'drop-out' is a term used by fishermen to describe the phenomenon where sharks fall out of shark gillnets during hauling operations. The term is distinguished from shark 'escapement' which is the phenomenon where sharks _struggle to free themselves from gillnets with a high probability of...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Offshore
Fishing Technology
Fishing Gear

Eastern Bass Strait deep water trawl fishery stock assessment

Project number: 1984-073
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $0.00
Organisation: Agriculture Victoria
Project start/end date: 28 Dec 1987 - 31 Dec 1987
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Stock Assessment
Population Dynamics
Fishing Technology
Distribution

Objectives

1. Obtain preliminary estimates of distribution & abundance,
2. parameters determining population dynamics, & potential annual yields, for commercially important spp of demersal fish at depths between 400-700m in the underdeveloped sector of eastern Bass Strait
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